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Need help on undertsanding PKI software products Pearapon S. 08-14-2004
Posted by Pearapon S. on August 14, 2004, 3:57 am
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Dear All,

I am new to PKI system. I am now looking for PKI Software for my
organization since we would like to set ouw own CA server and be able
to issue public/private keys and its Certificate for each employees to
be used within our company. As I studied for PKI software products
(such as : Entrust, RSA, SSH, Baltimore, etc) I found out that most of
them
pricing their software product by a number of certificates or the
number of users. I don't know why we need to pay to the number of
certificates or the number of users again since we already own the CA
server privately and we can generate and issue certificates by
ownself.

Cloud you please help clarify this question, please in term of
what is the reason behide this or I just misunderstanded.

Pearapon S.
pearapon@ksc.th.com


Posted by Bill Unruh on August 14, 2004, 3:53 pm
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pearapon@ksc.th.com (Pearapon S.) writes:

]Dear All,

] I am new to PKI system. I am now looking for PKI Software for my
]organization since we would like to set ouw own CA server and be able
]to issue public/private keys and its Certificate for each employees to
]be used within our company. As I studied for PKI software products
](such as : Entrust, RSA, SSH, Baltimore, etc) I found out that most of
]them
]pricing their software product by a number of certificates or the
]number of users. I don't know why we need to pay to the number of
]certificates or the number of users again since we already own the CA
]server privately and we can generate and issue certificates by
]ownself.

Because they want to make money. Not an entirely disreputable enterprise,
but one with great difficulty in justification for any software, where the
marginal costs of production give no justification whatsoever to the prices
charged. Of course the high development costs may, but it is hard for any
user to see the justification of why they should be the ones to bear that
expense.

Anyway, get in touch with those companies and see what they have to say
regarding pricing for your model. Alternatively just set up your own with
gpg and/or openssh. Both are free. Both work well. Both do not give you the
handholding that commercial products might. Is it worth the expense, or
could you better spend the money gettin inhouse expertise set up?



] Cloud you please help clarify this question, please in term of
]what is the reason behide this or I just misunderstanded.



Posted by ML on August 14, 2004, 5:24 pm
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Pearapon S. wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am new to PKI system. I am now looking for PKI Software for my
> organization since we would like to set ouw own CA server and be able
> to issue public/private keys and its Certificate for each employees to
> be used within our company. As I studied for PKI software products
> (such as : Entrust, RSA, SSH, Baltimore, etc) I found out that most of
> them
> pricing their software product by a number of certificates or the
> number of users. I don't know why we need to pay to the number of
> certificates or the number of users again since we already own the CA
> server privately and we can generate and issue certificates by
> ownself.
>
> Cloud you please help clarify this question, please in term of
> what is the reason behide this or I just misunderstanded.
>
> Pearapon S.
> pearapon@ksc.th.com

Hi,

Did you look at open CA ? It's open Source and can probably do the job
(I know commercial CA's using it)

ML
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